Enviro moment: Getting off the water bottles…
Posted April 13, 2010 at 1:45 am by Ian Byington
Three stories of bottled water at Costco (I took this photo in Burlington)...that's a lot of plastic for our little ol' landfill & transfer station....
You know, there ARE towns that have outlawed bottled water…it’s about time that we looked at this.
Bundanoon, Australia already has; 27 municipalities in Canada have; San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, St Louis, and others have passed bans on spending city money on bottled water.
Jack Johnson has jumped on the bandwagon…he mentions that 30 million single-use plastic bottles are dumped in US landfills each day. Here’s his 40 seconds about that…
Local kayak company Outdoor Odysseys has its thoughts about that…
And if you don’t look at anything else today, take the time to check out Annie’s vid on the good reasons we need to change the way we do things:
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5 comments:
5 comments...
thanks so much for posting this Ian.
Glad to see you publishing this. I hate bottled water, never fell for it and am delighted to see it on its way out.
Great idea to post this. We don’t serve bottled water on our trips because of this reason. Call Molly Finch for water or use Kings refill station!!
Good Call Ian! I would love to see them banned here! I bought a water purifier and am loving it! They aren’t too expensive and last really long!
When “Captain Smarty Pants” was in town they sang a song about bottled water with this catchy phrase “Evian spelled backwards is naive..” Sums it up!
Thanks for posting this video, I love Annie Leonard’s work. The youth group at St. David’s will be watching her video “The Story of Stuff” this Sunday at 10:30 am in the teen room if any island youth would like to join us that’d be great.
-Amy Wynn
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